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Reverse emulating the NES to give it SUPER POWERS!
suckerpinch · Discussed on HN from 2018 to 2025
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- 01reverse emulation
- 02nes
- 03raspberry pi
Tom Murphy (suckerpinch) shows 'reverse emulation', using a Raspberry Pi in an NES cartridge to give an unmodified NES new abilities such as playing SNES games. The video starts in a strange way and gets stranger.
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Reverse emulation uses a Raspberry Pi as an NES coprocessor
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sdenton4 · 2019-09 · 12 recommenders across 12 months
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